If you’re young and conservative you have no heart. If you’re old and you’re liberal, you have no brain.
There’s a quote that’s been floated around for decades, usually attributed to Winston Churchill, that goes something like, If you’re young and conservative you have no heart. If you’re old and you’re liberal, you have no brain.
That’s a bit draconian but as I get older, I’m personally becoming a bit more liberal, mainly because I realize how much dumb luck is really involved in our lives.
But that’s another post for another time.
The other thing I’m realizing is this: It’s always the younger people that are demanding all these social programs because “it’s the right thing to do.”
They march. They protest. They lament what will happen if something is or isn’t done. No fracking, no pink slime, etc.
My theory: They do this because they’re not the ones that have to pay for it. Someone else will.
As you probably know, I’m pro-Obamacare.
Interestingly, for the first time I can remember, the young have a direct ability to – literally and figuratively – put their money where their mouth is.
They have the ability to change the world, and help people, they just have to bear some cost of it.
And the latest news is showing that the exact the opposite is going on. They’re all for Obamacare, but only if someone else pays for it.
It’s like that old “bell the cat” trope where the mice have a genius idea to put a bell on a cat to keep from being killed, but which mouse will do it?
The conservatives are being proven right here.
I’d like Obamacare to succeed. But it looks like it will struggle for exactly the same reason other social programs like Medicaid and Social Security is struggling.
Because what people say and what people actually do, are two very different things.
Location: desk, finishing some projects
Mood: cynical
Music: I will change if I must. Slow it down and bring it home, I will adjust
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